Vegetable-cutter.



mg 634,494. Patbnte'd Hot. N), I899.

G. H. BBINSER.

VEGETABLE CUTTER.

(Application filed Jung 28, 1599.)

(No Model.)

UNITED. STATES,

PAT NT OFFICE;

enonen n. sinuses, or. LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming pa'rt of LetteIs IE fatent No. 634,494, dated October 10, 1899. Application filed June 28, 1899. Serial No. 722,117. (No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEQRGE'H. BRINSER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State-0f Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Slicers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it' appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved household implement whereby potatoes, apples, and other products may be cut into slices of various thicknesses or into squares and which may also be used for lemonsqueezing, expressing the juice from meat to make beef-tea, and similar purposes, the cut ting or straining parts being attached to or formed with interchangeable frames, casings, or hoppers, removable wires being substituted for knives as cutting and slicing agents, and

, the arrangement, construction, and combine-' tion of the parts being such thata single move ment of one hand completes the'operation.

To this end the said invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the complete utensil embodying my invention, the presserblock bcin g raised. Fig. 2 represents a detail View of the base and hopper-holder empty. Fig. 3 represents a detail view of the hopper or cutter-frame and cutting-wires thereon. Figs. 4 and 6 represent detail views of alternative forms of on later-frames or hoppers, that shown in Fig. 6, however, not being properly adapted to cutting. Fig. 5 represents a transverse vertical section through the cutter and frame on a plane passing through two of the lugs. Fig. '7 represents a detail view of the ribbed or corrugated plunger.

A designates the base of my slicing device .or machine, the saidbase being provided with a large central opening A and two inwardlyextending horizontal longitudinal flanges at the sides-thereof and the bottom of the said base for supporting the removable cutting frame or hopper hereinafter described. The

said base is preferably supported on three legs A which are arranged two in front and one behind, being fastened by rivets. Stand ards B B are rigid with the said base and extend upward vertically for about half their height, then converge, and are united at the top, as shown, forming a frame which is braced about the middle by cross-bar B To this top and cross-piece are attached guides 12 b for a vertically-sliding rack G, engaged by a toothed segment D, the latter bei-ngintegral with a lever D, pivoted to the standard B-of the said'frame. The said rack constitu tes the stem or plunger-rod of a fiat plunger or presser plate E, having an approximately elliptical form and provided with ribs or cor rugations e on its under face. This plunger fits into any one ofthe frames F G H or the hopper I, which alternatively set into the opening A. aforesaid, resting on the flanges a. The cutter-frame F (shown in Fig. 1 in position for operating) has two series of logs fextending laterally from its side bars at intervals along its entire length. These rest on the said flanges, and thereby support the frame. They also receive a wire or Wires K, which are passed about them, forming par allel cutters across the open bottom of the said frame.- The ends of the said lugs are also in contact with the vertical inner faces of the side walls of the said base, and therefore prevent the frame from rattling about and being dislodged. The construction of frame Gis substantially the same, except that its lugs g are nearer together, and the wires K, being also nearer, will cut finer slices. The hopper or casing I, which'is sometimes substituted, has a bottom'plate J, provided with a number'of holes j. It also has lugs r; at its sides, whichrest on the flanges ctafores'aid, and lugs 1; at its ends. These logs i i fit against the end walls of the opening A. v

The vegetables or other articleor substance to be operated on having been fedinto the cutting-frame,-the lever is turned to lower the plunger or presser plate into the said frame, forcingthe said vegetables or other substances through the Wires, which slice them or cut them according as they are arranged. Thusthe material passingthroughframe F \villbe cut into moderately-thin slices, that nor slices and that passing through frame H into squares. IVhen the hopper I is employed there is no cutting action, but the vegetables or other material will be crushed and forced through in disintegrated vermiform portions.

Of course this device may be used equally well with other food materials, and the wire may be arranged in diagonal lines or in any other convenient way instead of the arrangements shown.

Of course the frame or hopper constitutes a receptacle having openings in its bottom which may be either the spaces between the wires or the holes of the hopper-bottom plate. hen the material is forced through them, it issliced, out up, or otherwise disintegrated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An open cutter-frame provided with lugs extending outwardly from its sides in combination with Wire which extends around the saidlugs and across the said frame to form cutters, and a base provided with a central opening into which the said frame fits and with horizontal and vertical parts in contact 

